Barrel skid



Get. 29, 1929.

P. L. GUMAER 7 BARREL SKID Filed Nov. 22, 192

' show the same barrel f at ented Oct. 29, 1929 UNETED STATES PATENT PIERRE Ii. GUMAER, 0F HOUSTON, TEXAS, ASSEGN'OR TO 'THE TEXAS COMPANY, OF.

NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

BARREL SKID Application filedNovember 22, 192?. Serial No. 35,038.

This invention relates to barrel skids and particularly to skids or guides for directing the travel of metal barrels, drums, or the like when they are rolled on their hoops.

The drawing illustrates a cross section of a skid embodying my invention with a barrel shown in two possible positions, one in solid lines and one in broken or dotted lines.

The barrel skid may be of any length, and inclined if desired. It may be made of any suitable material but is preferably formed of one or more sections of sheet metal. Each separate sheet or section has its side edges turned down to provide supports 1, 1 for the skid which is thereby elevated from the structure 3 upon which it is laid. In practice it is usually necessary to place a number of sections together, end to end, in order to provide a skid of sufficient length but it may obviously be made of a single elongated sheet if de sired. 7

Each section is formedintermediate its side edges with a concave trough or guide-way 4 and tracks 2 whichparallel the guide-way on opposite sides thereof and when a number of such sections are placed end to end a continuous elongated trough is formed.

ll/letal barrels and drums, such as 5, are usually formed intermediate their ends with spaced circumferential hoops or flanges such as those indicated at 6 and 7. lVhen it isdesired to move a barrel or drum of this type on the skid, it is placed on the runway in an approximately central position and with its axis at approximately right angles to the skid. The flanges are positioned within the guideway and support the body of the barrel above the level of the skid. Asthe barrel or drum starts to roll down the skid it may have a tendency to roll either to one side or the other. F or the purpose of illustration here, and with particular reference to the drawing, the movement of the barrel will be described as to the right or to the left as viewed on the drawing.

The barrel illustrated in solid lines is shown centered on the skid, while'the dotted lines when it has started to roll to the right. It will be seen that as soon as the barrel starts to roll to the right the left hoop 6' will cease to make contact on the skid and the contact atthat moment will be made I i by the right hoop 7 and the left-hand chime 8 of thebarrel which contactswith the lefthand track 2. Inasmuch as the diameter of the'chime 8 hoop 7 suclrcontact will causethe barrel-to gradually swerve to the left while rolling until both hoops again make contact with the skid. As the arrel continuesto roll'to the left of the center line of the skid, the right hoop 7 will cease to make contact with the trough and the contact will thenbe made by is less than the diameter of the p the lefthandhoop 6 and the right-hand chime I I 9, and the barrel will then swerve gradually,

to the right until both hoops again make con tact with the skid. The barrel will continue to roll down the inclined skid, swerving slight-- ly from one side to the other en barrel on a parallel rail skid.

It will be noted that with this type of skid it 1s impossible for any part of the barrel, eX- or the. chimes 8, or 9, to

cept the hoops 6 or 7 make contact with the skid and consequent ly the paint on the body of the barrel cannot be marred. Furthermore, there can be no binding action of the and a steel barrel or metal drum will roll freely on the skid when placed at a very slight angle of inclination, as compared to the angle necessary to keep a steel barrel rolling on a parallel rail ty e of skid. a i I I Apparatus of preferred form and construction has been illustrated and describedfor the purpose of showing a way in which this in vention may be used, but the inventive thought upon which the application is based,

is broader than this illustrative embodiment thereof, and I therefore intend no limitations other than those imposed by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A skid for barrels having spaced peripheral shoulders intermediate their chimes comprising a longitudinally disposedand substantially concave-shaped guide-way adapted to receive and support the barrel shoulders,

and tracks paralleling said guide-Way on opposite sides thereof.

2. A skid for barrels having spaced annular flanges about their mid-peripheries, comprishoops against theskid as does a wooding a longitudinally disposed and substantial- 1y concave-shaped guide-Way adapted to receive and support the barrel flanges, and tracks on each side of said guide-Way adapted to contact with the chimes of any barrels which deviate from a straight course to swing such barrels-back into position. 7 I

3. A skid for barrels having spaced annular shoulders about their mid-peripheries, comprising a runway, a substantially concave guide-Way for receiving and supporting the barrel flanges disposed intermediate the sides of said runway, the depth of the guide-way being such that the chimes of the barrels only contact with the runway when the barrels deviate from a straight course, such v contact. serving to swing the barrels back to their normal positions;

7 4c. A skid for elongated runway of eries, comprising an greater width than the length of the barrels and formed with a longitudinally disposed concave guide-Way intermediate the sides of the runway the Width of the guide-Way being slightly greater than the distance between the flanges of the barrels and the maximum depth slightly less than the height of the flanges.

- /Vitness my hand thisf9th day of November, 1927. t

V PIERRE L. GUMAER.

I barrels having a plurality of outstanding flanges about their 1111d,-per1ph-, 

